Uninstalling Bootvis in Windows xp

[wydeboi]

Hi, I have tried to uninstall bootvis and cannot. I searched Microsofts website for info on uninstalling this program, since they created it, but no luck. It is causing my system to hang up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Rainbow32]

Do you get an error message or is there some other reason you can't uninstall?
BootVis is dependent on the Task Scheduler and COM+ Event System services.
Disabling these services might help. Don't forget to set them back to your default settings afterwards.

[wydeboi]

Hi, I did use the add/remove programs to remove it and windows reports that it is removed. However, whenever I rebooted my computer,bootvis would try to run and report that a file was missing, when I clicked ok, then the system would lock up. I then reinstalled bootvis, which overwrote the previous installation. I did not run bootvis w/the trace feature, in fact I did not run it at all so now my system is not locking up, I just want to remove it completely from my system any thoughts on how that can be done? Thanks

[wydeboi]

sorry, also, when I tried to remove the files for bootvis manually, I got an access denied.

[sheldondsouza]

On startup bootvis will cause problem. Thats what ur saying right. If so manually delete it and go to msconfig and remove its appropriate entry from startup category

[wydeboi]

I tried to manually uninstall the bootvis files but got the message: Access Denied.
I also removed it from the start menu using msconfig. It restarted itself.
I found if I never run bootvis, I have no problems. I would still like to remove it from my machine. Thanks for the help.